Reborn for a comeback, a period novel, tough-as-nails retirement, standing up to toxic relatives, mother-daughter relationships, making money, feel-good wish fulfillment, and everyday family drama
A lifetime of swallowing her grievances and giving everything left Liu Cuihua with a miserable end: freezing and starving to death in the dead of winter, abandoned in the wilderness.
When Liu Cuihua opens her eyes, she has returned to 1982, the year her fate took a turn.
Her children are just as selfish and calculating as before, treating her like a free nanny and an ATM.
Her eldest son and his wife pretend to be kind while pleading poverty. Her second son is a shameless freeloader who never pays his debts. Her married daughter only knows how to cry and demand more. Liu Cuihua's heart turns to ice.
The bloody lessons of her previous life are still vivid. This time, she will not make the same mistakes!
She cuts ties and flips the dinner table!
She puts the family split in writing and makes it final!
She quietly learns the policies, consults witnesses, and drafts a cold, decisive separation agreement with her own hands.
Let her children cry, threaten, and throw tantrums all they want.
She builds a wall, draws the boundary, and makes it on her own!
She divides the courtyard, changes the locks, and protects her little home and meager plot of land.
Rising before dawn and working late into the night, she draws on hazy memories from her previous life and her keen eye for detail to find a way to make a living in the markets of the 1980s, starting with a little fried-skewer stall.
Through the smoke and scorching heat, she earns more than just enough to survive. She gains the confidence and dignity to stand tall.
Her children scheming? She watches without a care!
As she watches them blame each other over the division of the family, fall out over petty gains, and struggle in poverty, Liu Cuihua feels nothing but a cool, peaceful calm.
Their antics can no longer hurt her in the slightest.
There are many repetitions, and there are many indifferent terms of address.